Mount for belt-hooks.



J'. G. CONN; MOUNT FOR BELT HOOKS. APPLICATION FILED AUG. '1, 1909.

Patented Feb. 8, 1910.

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JOSEPH C. CONN, OF BOON'ION, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-NOR TO J. B. STONECOMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

MOUNT FOB BELT-HOOKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 7, 1909.

Patented Feb. 8, 1910.

Serial No. 511,742.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH C. CONN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boontou, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Mounts forBeltI-Iooks, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to means for mounting or carding belt-hooks, andthe object of the invention is to provide a removable mount or card ofpaper or the like, on which the belt-hooks are supported in position forproper presentation to the tools employed in engaging the hooks with thebelt-end, thus affording a convenient means of handling the group ofhooks and effecting a considerable saving in time required in assemblingThe invention consists in certain novel features of construction andarrangement by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafterdescribed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show anapproved form of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side view of a group of belt hooks mounted in series upona card. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transversesection through the card, taken on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1 and showingthe hooks in elevation. Fig. a is a similar view taken on the line a tin Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a plan view on a smaller scale showing a toolemployed in attaching the hooks to a belt-end, with a card and itsattached hooks in position thereon. Fig. 6 is a corresponding transversesectional view, taken on the line 66 in the preceding figure, with thebelt-end shown in dotted lines.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The type of belt-hook to which the invention is shown as applied is ofwire bent to an approximately triangular outline having two divergentlegs A A one shorter than the other and each terminating in an inwardlybent point or spur B.

In the preferred form of the invention shown in the drawings, the cardis of channel form comprising a plane strip or base M having an upwardlyextending partially folded portion or flange M on each edge. Thematerial of the card may be cardboard, heavy paper or other like fabrichaving the quality of being easily cut or torn.

The hooks are attached by suitable machinery or otherwise with the baseBI lying along the open face of the series and the flanges M M lyingwithin the legs A A and extending part way to the bights A. The long andshort legs alternate on each flange, with the spurs of the long legs Aprojecting through the flanges and lying upon the inner face of thebase; the spurs on the short legs similarly penetrate the flanges andproject through the latter in lines ZIbOXG the base.

Between each hook and the next the flange is slitted to form a tongue Mwhich is bent outwardly and serves as a support between adjacent legs toaid in holding the hooks in planes perpendicular to the base andproperlyspaced to be received in the tool by which they are secured tothe belt-end.

In the operation of attaching the hooks to a belt-end the card with itsseries of hooks is laid upon the bed or tool C with the legs on oneflange matching in the grooves c and with the bights A resting againstan eccentrically mounted rod D extending transversely through the landsbetween the grooves. A pin or needle E is then thrust through parallelwith the pin, engaging the bights, and the rod D turned to force thebights against the pin and hold the hooks in place. The card is thenremoved by slitting along the base and tearing away the portions thusformed, and a belt-end, indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 6, is insertedbetween the rows of spurs which are then beaten or otherwise forced intothe material of the belt. The pin E is then with- "drawn to free thebights, and the opposite belt-end is similarly treated, the joint beingcompleted by abutting the ends of the belt and inserting a pin or stripof suitable material through all the bights as will be understood.

In the usual operation the hooks are placed one by one in the grooves ofthe tool with the long and short legs alternated, and much time isnecessarily consumed in thus selecting and placing each hookindependently; the advantage of the invention is obvious in its economyof time, especially in situations in which the belt-ends are not readilyaccessible.

The mounts are supplied in various lengths and in all sizes of hooks, asrequired for all standard widths and thicknesses of belts, and by simplyselecting the proper mount and inserting it in the tool the hooks areready for instant attachment.

The form of card shown is preferable by reason of the stiffness attaineddue partly to the channel-like structure and partly to the mutualinter-bracing of the cards and hooks, and also by reason of the tonguesbetween the hooks, which serve to maintain uniformity of spacing, butother forms of cards may be employed and the tongues may be omitted.

Any material adapted for the purpose may be substituted for thecardboard or paper, and although the invention is described as servingwith a tool of special design it will be understood that it will servewith any device by which the hooks may be supported and driven into thebelt. Other types of belt-hooks than that shown and described may besimilarly mounted.

I claim 1. A strip of thin material, and a series of belt-hooks eachhaving divergent legs i11- closing said strip and attached thereto.

2. A strip of thin material partially folded into channel form, and aseries of belthooks each having divergent legs partially inclosing thewalls of such channel and attached thereto.

3. A strip of thin material partially folded into channel form, and aseries of belthooks each having divergent legs partly inclosing the sidewalls of said channel, and spurs on said legs extending through suchsides.

4. A strip of thin material partially folded to channel form, a seriesof belt-hooks each having divergent legs partly inclosing the side wallsof said channel, inwardly projecting spurs on said legs extendingthrough said side walls, and a series of tongues formed from said sidewalls and lying between adjacent hooks.

5. A strip of thin material folded to comprise a base, and flanges alongeach edge of said base, a series of belt-hooks each bent to formdivergent legs of different lengths with an inwardly projecting spur atthe extremity of each leg, the said flanges partly inclosed by saidlegs, and the spurs thereon extending through said flanges with thespurs of the long legs lying upon the inner face of said base, and thespurs of the short legs above said base and alternated with the spurs ofsaid long legs, and a series of tongues formed by slitting said flangesand bending outwardly the material of said flanges between adjacenthooks.

6. As a new article of manufacture, a card partially folded into channelform, and a series of belt-hooks, each having divergent legs, inclosingsaid card and attached thereto in position for attachment to a'belt-end.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I aflix mysignature, in pres ence of two witnesses.

J. O. CONN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES R. SEARLE, F. J. GREENE.

